Ignoring The Voters Works Wonders

Specifically, the wonder of Donald Trump, who is going to win just because of things like this.

In the wake of this month’s terrorist attack in San Bernardino, in which one of the perpetrators managed to enter the country on a K-1 “fiancée” visa without being detected, the least popular policy at the moment is increasing access to the US. Numerous polls now show confidence in the federal government plummeting when it comes to securing the nation. The big debate at the moment isn’t on whether to increase visa access, but whether it needs to get shut down for a while until we can improve scrutiny on applicants.

So what did elected representatives Congress do when it came time to pass a large omnibus bill to complete the FY2016 budget process? Sneak a large increase in foreign-worker visas into the legislation, of course....

This is clearly where the mind of the establishment is right now, both Democratic and Republican.

The voters' chief concern is a terrorism that the government has proven incapable of controlling -- let's push disarming the people, while doing nothing much about ISIS and actively helping Iran.

One of the terrorists got in on a badly-investigated visa at the same time that ISIS has proven capable of creating counterfeit Syrian passports and is promising to use the refugee crisis as a vector to infiltrate the West -- let's increase the number of Syrian refugees immediately!

Even if you don't agree with the public, the thing about being an elected representative you are supposed to represent the public. If you don't do that, you'd better be really persuasive in accounting for your behavior and convincing the public that you were right and they were wrong. Otherwise, your performance review is coming up fast, and it sounds like the voters are looking to make a change.

I don't think that the "elites" will do anything unless and until it bites them financially. It didn't seem to impact them after 9/11. It was Bin Laden's hope that 9/11 was the first volley in an economic war; remember the unemployment in some industries. It is entirely possible that 9/11 cost the economy a trillion dollars, thought there is no consensus, and I'm not including the cost of the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq. What happens if there is a major attack on a school, a major sports venue, another high rise, apparently nothing.

Also people seriously underestimate the power of the Left or other totalitarian systems, when they start talking about "elections" that change things. The system is too old and solid to be changed by elections.

Saddam Hussein also had elections, and he only managed to Trump DC's 93% vote for Hussein Obola by about 6%.